Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Jodi Picoult

The road to a friend's house is never long.

Danish proverb

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Bono

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Elisha Cuthbert

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie.

Eric Parslow

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

Jeanette Winterson

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

Mary-Kate Olsen

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.

Enya

All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.

Ash Vaz

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Brigitte Bardot